Iran has rejected claims of diplomatic progress and pledged to respond to US pressure.
A cargo ship was reportedly hit in the Strait of Hormuz by an “unknown projectile” overnight. The incident occurred after US President Donald Trump declared that he was giving Iran its “last chance before decapitation” to sign a deal on his terms.
Control over the strait, through which roughly a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil passes, has become the focal point of the conflict since Washington launched its war against Iran in late February. Tehran has rejected Trump’s claims that his efforts to extract concessions through a naval blockade of Iranian ports and threats of overwhelming military action are leading to progress towards a diplomatic solution.
The incident occurred off the coast of Oman in the narrow waterway, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) monitoring agency reported late on Monday. Reuters later identified the ship as the Liberia-flagged dry bulk ship Minoan Pioneer, citing industry sources. A sailor is reportedly missing after a hit on the engine room, which prompted a full evacuation of the crew.
Separate reports from Kuwait said that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attacked a US military base in the north of the country overnight. Tehran has not claimed responsibility for either incident.
Initial reports of an Iranian attack in northern Kuwait. pic.twitter.com/kun7ttfTaI
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Earlier on Monday, Trump said his latest decision to call off attacks on Iran over the weekend was intended to give Tehran an opportunity “to sign a good document.”
“I want to give them every last chance before decapitation,” he said after journalists at the White House pointed out that it was at least the fifth time he had said he was canceling military operations to facilitate negotiations.
Trump also ruled out allowing the war to end with Iran imposing charges on commercial traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
“I’m not going to let him charge. Anybody’s going to charge, we’ll charge. We have total control,” he asserted.
Tehran reiterated Monday that it would continue responding to the US blockade. Mohsen Rezaei, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, rejected Trump’s claims that talks were ongoing.
“The negotiations are at a deadlock and Trump must break this deadlock,” the Iranian official told journalists. He added that if the US escalates hostilities, Iran will “expand the war beyond the Persian Gulf.”
Tehran insists that no ship may pass through the Strait of Hormuz without its permission. It has also said that the route must be open to either all nations, including Iran, or none. The Iranian military has also attacked American military assets across the Middle East while severely restricting traffic through the strait, creating pressure on the global economy.
Trump has got himself boxed in painted into a corner
And in a quandary with no military options nor way out
Bluffed
The JCPOA was the best deal Trump ever had on the table which he threw under the bus for his handler and controller Benzion Mileikowsky alias Benjamin Natanyahu related to Argentine President Javier Mileikowsky now known as shortened to Milei
The great name changers and shapeshifters
A deal which will in retrospect likely to be recognized as being more superior to any further negotiated deal if it indeed happens
The US is a bad actor and cannot be trusted at its word but foreign policy is orchestrated and conjured up out of a fake news web site Truth Social
With tweet blitzkrieg out bursts of non nonsensical delirious and maligned thinking from the bunker by a mad man in the advanced stages of mental and physical decline
There’s a monster on the loose and its got its head into a noose
A senseless war which defies all logic only to serve the interests of a few which should never have and being no need to happen
Much to our misfortune
Heralding the death throw and demise of a once mighty hegemon and world power
Which built up its wealth and prosperity on the misery and suffering of others through the creation of debt and in servitude while taking us along for the ride
RIP
And why has the FBI officially set up an office in NZ?
Pivot to Asia
Which is what it is all about
The USA and their allies are preventing / obstructing any negotiations or pathways to peace. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iran-says-hormuz-talks-are-only-with-oman–not-us